[Board] FOSS4G 2014 Budget

[Darrell Fuhriman]

The part I was asked to take off was the list of expected/hoped for sponsors and dollar amounts (even though the dollar amounts associated were more place holder than anything else).

However, I would point out that if you're a contractor, you might well consider your billing amounts to be private, if not exactly trade secrets. People don't like their competition to find out what they're charging.

Darrell


On Oct 17, 2013, at 14:23, Andrew Ross <andrew.ross at eclipse.org> wrote:

> Hi Darrell, Portland LOC, OSGeo board
> 
> I was wondering, why is the FOSS4G budget kept secret?
> 
> No two offerings from organizers and suppliers are alike, therefore the number doesn't give away trade secrets, so I would like to understand more the rationale for keeping it secret.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> On 17/10/13 16:34, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
>> Per the virtual board meeting today, I've attached a "sanitized" version of the budget.
>> 
>> The latest version of this document will always be available here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/z5c7t8xvhuveu2x/PDX%20FOSS4g%202014%20Budget.xls
>> 
>> During the discussion, Frank Warmerdam mentioned that the baseline attendance estimate (850) was not very conservative.
>> 
>> However, if you play with the variables you'll see that you can lower attendance quite a bit and still come out in the black. Quite simply, it's because catering is *by far* the largest expense, and the catering bill is directly proportional to the number of attendees.
>> 
>> Obviously really low attendance would have an effect on things like sponsorship levels, but there's no obvious way to model what that would be, and I think it's safe to assume that a FOSS4G can consistently draw 800+ attendees.
>> 
>> Darrell
>> 
>> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Board mailing list
> Board at lists.osgeo.org
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 4136 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/attachments/20131017/275020b4/attachment.bin>